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With careful planning and a little luck, researchers found a surprising upside to hurricanes after a Category 4 storm ...
As we celebrate World Ocean Day, new research shows the role that the ocean twilight zone plays in keeping the planet healthy ...
Researchers have filmed a living Antarctic gonate squid in a world-first sighting deep in the ocean surrounding Antarctica.
Given the extreme conditions of the hadal zone, scientists were surprised by ... in Earth’s last great unexplored frontier—the deep ocean.
The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...
lead author of the study and expert on the Hadal zone from WHOI, said in a press statement. “This finding underlines the importance of continued deep-ocean exploration, particularly in Chile’s ...
This zone is known as the carbonate compensation ... You may like Only 0.001% of deep ocean has ever been explored by humans — an area equal to the size of Rhode Island The Earth's oceans ...
French Polynesia pledged this week to create the world's largest marine protected area to safeguard its seas -- and it hopes ...
Mass migration of life in the twilight zone — which can be found in the deepest parts of the ocean, between 650 feet deep and 3,300 feet deep — was first discovered in World War II ...
Researchers have discovered a new species of glowing sea slug deep in the ocean’s midnight zone. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) scientists said in a press release on Tuesday ...
The ocean's twilight zone is deep, dark, and -- according to new research -- iron deficient. No sunlight reaches this region 200 to 1,000 meters below the sea surface, where levels of iron ...
We’ve learned that to protect ourselves, we need to protect this mysterious deep-sea area that regulates our climate and powers important ocean businesses. The ocean twilight zone ...